giga

giga

(1) Billion (10 to the 9th power). Abbreviated "G," it is a prefix for capacities and speeds (gigabits, gigabytes, gigahertz, etc.). Giga may refer to 1,000,000,000 or 1,073,741,824, the latter based on the binary system (see NIST binary). See GB, gig, binary values and space/time.

(2) A prefix attached to common, non-computer words that means a very large size or quantity. For example, "gigabucks" means a lot of money. Both "giga" and "mega" are used in this manner, although giga means billion and mega means million. See mega.

"A system like this takes 4 gops (Giga Operations Per Second) of processing power," said Lind, "and will signal the need to assist the driver with his task." Like all active safety systems it will leave the ultimate responsibility in the driver's hands.--CAS

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According to a report by Giga Information Group (for a study that AMD commissioned, it should be noted), organizations can derive significant cost savings by gradually adding Opteron-based servers as software is transitioned to 64 bits.

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